** Breathing heavily I scramble around the room to find something to cram open the door. “Tik tock tik tock,” the clock keeps repeating over and over again until I feel as if my ears are about to bleed. “Hello, Kasey,” I hear as a dark figure begins emerging from the dark and into my vision. A bright light flickers on at my left, I look over and it’s a timer with big red numbers. “5 minutes on this timer,” the figure says while floating closer to me. For a split second It was almost like I was chocking on air. “What do you want from me?” I can’t believe I could even form a word in this moment, a sentence at that. “Shh, you’ll see.” The figure stopped moving, still like a statue.**

** I started to turn my head left and right looking at the bright white walls of the room. I’ve been stuck in here nearly an eternity I may just go crazy. **

** With my breath stuck in my airways I scream on the very top of my lungs “WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!” No response. I began to back up, but before I knew it I felt the soft pillow like touch of the wall, panting. **

** As the mysterious figure moves closer my eyes began to gloss over with milky tears. “No no no, this simply can’t be true,” I think to myself. “This can’t possibly be the way I die!” **

** As they get less then inches away from my face, I realize who this is. “Jared?” I question. “Yes, Kasey. It is me,” he replies. “Please don’t do this,” my shakey voice cracks as he pulls out a knife from his side pocket. “I LOVED YOU!” he begins screaming while his eyes fill to the brim with tears nearly overflowing. “I loved you Kasey, and you left me. You left me all alone in the time I needed you most.” “Jare. . . please no! I loved you too, but sometimes things don’t work out.” I tremble. “Don’t call me Jare!” he shouts. Rivers began flowing from his eyes as he falls to the metal flooring. **

** “Tick” the timer went down to 3:00 minutes. I was trying with all of my might to not think about the endless possibilities of horrid things that could happen at 0:00. “Jared, we tried our hardest. It wasn’t meant to be and I couldn’t handle the constant arguing. It was so painful for you and I. Neither of us deserved it.” I say trying to make my words sound as calm as possible. “I needed you,” Jared cried out to me. **

** He quickly gets up and pushes me to the ground. “Tick” 2:00 minutes left. My heart pounding I think of every possible thing to stop him from taking my life away from me. “Aubry!” I shout in hopes the name will catch his attention and help to show me some sympathy. “What about her?” he says while picking up the knife and bringing it closer to me. “She misses you, you know that? She wishes you came around more. She’s just 9, but she blames herself for you leaving. I guess all of our ‘annoying little sister’ jokes got the best her,” I attempt to chuckle as I weep. “Really?” Jared questions. “Yes Jare!” **

** I look to my left and see the blinding red numbers read 1:10. “Don’t hurt me, it will only hurt her more,” I whimper. He slowly began to lift his body off of mine. Seeing the rivers flow out of his ocean blue eyes was like a stab in the heart, but considering the fact he was literally about to stab me in the heart there’s not a bone in my body that makes me want to show sympathy. Though, it will benefit me and my life. So I assume I will, but only for my selfish needs.**

** Jared has always had problems, and I knew that. I knew he has bipolar disorder and severe anger issues. It was sad, really. I just didn’t know it was quite this bad. So bad to the point where he’d take another beings life to numb his hurt. It’s terrible, it truly is. **

** 00:50. 50 seconds to convince my phycotic ex not to murder me. “This is the end” those four words kept haunting my mind. “Jared please let me go, you will find someone else,” I explained. “In 30 seconds this room will begin to catch on fire, Kasey,” he whispers in a low tone. “Jare-“ I tremble “I SAID DON’T CALL ME THAT! LISTEN TO ME! I’m going to go now, this hasn’t gone as planned. I’ll be sure to give your family a call and tell them how I found you stranded on the side of the road and took you in. How I then found you lying dead on the spare bedroom floor.” he said turning his back and walking away. “JARED! NO!” I howled. His figure disappeared.**

** A voice came on from from the speakers hung in the four corners of the room. “5, 4, 3, 2, 1,” I closed my eyes and braced myself for what was about to happen. Heat began to wash over my body and I felt it getting closer. Nothing can make me open my eyes. I can’t watch. I continue to pray in my head in hopes the Lord hasn’t decided it’s my time to go. **

** “AHH” I groan in pain. The flames were beginning to overtake my body. I’m burning, I’m burning alive. As I take my last breath and crack my eyes open, I see a glimpse of Jared through an open door staring. **

** Then it all went dark.**

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